Running away to Wales.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 26 Jan 2009, 01:16

snow hope wrote:I have a lot of ash trees round my perimeter and it makes great firewood - so dry even when you have just cut it. ....

..... You cut down hazel trees (shrubs) - how could you?

Hazel will coppice as well as ash will. Just don't cut it all at the same time and you will still have some nuts.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 26 Jan 2009, 11:56

Tess wrote:
Vortex wrote:Tess, is your place a 1-bed wooden abode?
A two-bed wooden abode. The neighbouring one-bed wooden abode is still for sale as far as I know.

OK.

I have found a decent close-up picture of your house - but can't quite place it in the blur of Google Earth or the MSN equivalent.

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 26 Jan 2009, 12:49

Vortex wrote: I have found a decent close-up picture of your house - but can't quite place it in the blur of Google Earth or the MSN equivalent.

That's nice for you. I posted a link to a photo earlier in the thread.

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 26 Jan 2009, 13:02

Tess wrote:
Vortex wrote: I have found a decent close-up picture of your house - but can't quite place it in the blur of Google Earth or the MSN equivalent.
That's nice for you. I posted a link to a photo earlier in the thread.

Somewhere in those 16 pages ... must have missed it! Off I go ...

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 26 Jan 2009, 13:15

Vortex wrote: Somewhere in those 16 pages ... must have missed it! Off I go ...

What are you trying to do? Stalk me?

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/1/wood ... u/20730515

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 26 Jan 2009, 13:21

Tess wrote:
Vortex wrote: Somewhere in those 16 pages ... must have missed it! Off I go ...
What are you trying to do? Stalk me?

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/1/wood ... u/20730515

Of course not ... I'm just nosey!

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 26 Jan 2009, 14:29

View from the lounge window...

http://twitpic.com/17fgd

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 26 Jan 2009, 17:04

Jealous is not the word.

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 19 Mar 2009, 13:40

I've started a blog about our place in Wales and the little downshifting project that is our lives right now.

http://www.downshiftproject.com/

Please come by and visit. There's also a podcast (all of one episode so far). I'm also thinking of doing a powerswitch podcast covering the stories I see on powerswitch and maybe interviewing some of you good folks who are making interesting changes to your lives...

CountingDown · Post by **CountingDown** » 19 Mar 2009, 20:22

Great job Tess,

Powerswitch podcasts are a good idea - I've been wanting a UK-based version of Peak Moment - keep us all posted with how you go.

What did you use to create the podcast?

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 19 Mar 2009, 20:40

andrew-l wrote: What did you use to create the podcast?

If you mean the software, I used Audacity for recording, and PodProducer to play the intro and outro music.

CountingDown · Post by **CountingDown** » 19 Mar 2009, 21:06

Cool, thanks - one of these days I'll have something interesting to say

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » 19 Mar 2009, 22:39

I mentioned this thread and your blog to my lovely wife, she said " I wouldn't mind doing that".

Surprised ? Yes I am.

23 years married and I still don't know what she's thinking.

I said "but surely you'd miss all your friends" to which she replied " Well, there's always Facebook, and we could visit sometimes".

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 20 Mar 2009, 15:55

Catweazle wrote:I mentioned this thread and your blog to my lovely wife, she said " I wouldn't mind doing that".

Surprised ? Yes I am.

I felt that way when I suggested to Dave (jokingly) that we should move to Wales. I never expected him to get all excited by the idea because he seemed so committed to being an academic in London. And here we are three months later digging the garden and building polytunnels.

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 26 Mar 2009, 08:26

New downshift.com post:-
http://downshiftproject.com/index.php/2009/03/our-land/

or the audio version:-
http://downshiftproject.com/index.php/2 ... -our-land/

or subscribe to the podcast in itunes!
itpc://feeds.downshiftproject.com/downshiftproject